Symptom clusters in a population-based ambulatory cancer cohort validated using bootstrap methods

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3073-3081

  Howell, Doris ^a   Husain, Amna ^b   Seow, Hsien ^c,d,g   Liu, Ying ^d   Kustra, Rafal ^a   Atzema, Clare ^b,d,e   Dudgeon, Deborah ^f   Earle, Craig ^b,d   Sussman, Jonathan ^c,g   Barbera, Lisa ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g Supportive Care Research Unit   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Bootstrap methods; Cancer; Oncology; Symptom clusters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANXIETY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SYMPTOM; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANXIETY; APPETITE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 84867577073     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

References (70)

1. C.S. Cleeland, T.R. Mendoza, and X.S. Wang Assessing symptom distress in cancer patients: the M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory Cancer 89 7 2009 1634 1646
2. L. Barbera, H. Seow, and D. Howell Symptom burden and performance status in a population-based cohort of ambulatory cancer patients Cancer 116 24 2010 5767 5776
3. C. Miasakowski, M. Dodd, and K.A. Lee Symptom clusters: the new frontier in symptom management research J Natl Cancer Instit Monogr 32 2004 17 21
4. A.M. Barsevick, K. Whitmer, L.M. Nail, S.L. Beck, and W.N. Dudley Symptom cluster research: conceptual, design, measurement and analysis issues J Pain Symptom Manage 31 1 2006 85 95
5. G. Fan, L. Filipczak, and E. Chow Symptom clusters in cancer patients: a review of the literature Curr Oncol 14 5 2007 173 179
6. C. Xiao The state of the science in the study of cancer symptom clusters Eur J Oncol Nurs 14 2010 417 434
7. H.J. Kim, D.B. McGuire, L. Tulman, and A.M. Barsevick Symptom clusters: concept analysis and clinical implications for cancer nursing Cancer Nurs 2005 28 2005 270 284
8. M.J. Dodd, D. Miasakowski, and S.M. Paul Symptom clusters and their effect on the functional status of patients with cancer Oncol Nurs Forum 28 3 2001 465 470
9. C.S. Cleeland, G.J. Bennett, R. Dantzer, P.M. Dougherty, A.J. Dunn, and C.A. Meyers Are the symptoms of cancer and cancer treatment due to a shared biologic mechanism? A cytokine-immunologic model of cancer symptoms Cancer 97 2003 2919 2925
10. T. Rich Analyzing the symptoms in cancer patients Eng Med Biol 2008 25 28
11. E.R. Lenz, L.C. Pugh, R.A. Milligan, A. Gift, and F. Suppe The middle range theory of unpleasant symptoms: an update Adv Nurs Sci 19 3 1997 14 27
12. J. Kirkova, and D. Walsh Cancer symptom clusters - a dynamic construct Support Care Cancer 15 2007 1011 1013
13. E. Chow, G. Fan, S. Hadi, and L. Filipczak Symptom clusters in patients with bone metastasis Support Care Cancer 15 9 2007 1035 1043
14. M.J. Dodd, M.H. Cho, B.A. Cooper, and C. Miasakowski The effect of symptom clusters on functional status and quality of life in women with breast cancer Eur J Oncol Nurs 14 2 2010 101 110
15. B. Given, C. Given, F. Azzouz, and M. Stommel Physical functioning of elderly cancer patients prior to diagnosis and following initial treatment Nurs Res 50 4 2001 222 232
16. S.W. Fox, and D. Lyon Symptom clusters and quality of life in survivors of lung cancer Oncol Nurs Forum 33 5 2006 931 936
17. A.L. Chevelle, P.J. Novotny, and J.A. Sloan The value of a symptom cluster of fatigue, dyspnea, and cough in predicting clinical outcomes in lung cancer survivors J Pain Symptom Manage 42 2 2011 213 221
18. J. Kirkova, A. Aktas, D. Walsh, and M.P. Davis Cancer symptom clusters: clinical and research methodology J Palliat Med 14 10 2011 1 17
19. S.L. Beck Symptom clusters: impediments and suggestions for solutions J Natl Cancer Inst Monogr 32 2004 137 138
20. H.M. Skerman, and P.M. Yates Multivariate methods to identify cancer-related symptom clusters Res Nurs Health 32 3 2009 345 360
21. L. Barbera, J. Sussman, and R. Viola Factors associated with the end of life health service use in patients dying of cancer Healthcare Policy 5 3 2010 e125 43
22. L. Barbera, H. Seow, and D. Howell Symptom burden and performance status in a population based cohort of ambulatory cancer patients Cancer 116 24 2010 5767 5776
23. D. Dudgeon, S. King, and D. Howell Cancer Care Ontario's experience with implementation of routine physical and psychological symptom distress screening [published online ahead of print February 8, 2011] Psycho-Oncology 2011 10.1002/pon.1918
24. E.A. Clarke, L.D. Marrett, and N. Kreiger Cancer registration in Ontario: a computer approach O.M. Jenson, D.M. Parkin, R. MacLennan, Cancer registration principles and methods 1991 IARC Pub Lyon, France 246 257
25. S.C. Robles, L.D. Marrett, E.A. Clarke, and H.A. Risch An application of capture-recapture methods to the estimation of completeness of cancer registration J Clin Epidemiol 41 5 1988 495 501
26. Canadian institute for health information. Data quality of the discharge abstract database following the first year implementation of ICD-10-CA/CCI - final report. Ottawa; 2004. Available from: http://secure.cihi.ca/cihiweb/ products/DAD-DQ-ICD10Report-e.pdf.
27. Deyo RA, Carter WB. Strategies for improving and expanding the application of health status measures in clinical settings. A researcher-developer viewpoint. Med Care 1992; 30(Suppl. 5): MS176-186; discussion MS196-209.
28. K. Iron, B.M. Zagorski, K. Sykora, and D.G. Manuel Living and dying in Ontario: an opportunity for improved health information. ICES Investigative Report 2008 Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences Toronto
29. R. Wilkins, J.M. Berthelot, and E. Ng Trends in mortality by neighbourhood income in urbanCanada from 1971 to 1996 Health Rep 13 Suppl. 2002 14 15 Available from: http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-s/2002001/pdf/82-003- s2002007-eng.pdf
30. C. Nekolaichuk, S. Watanabe, and C. Beaumont The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System: retrospective review of validation studies (1991-2006) Palliat Med 22 2 2008 111 122
31. V.T. Chang, S.S. Hwang, and M. Feuerman Validation of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale Cancer 88 9 2000 2164 2171
32. B.M. Thompson Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: understanding concepts and applications 2004 American Psychological Association Washington, DC
33. D. Child The essentials of factor analysis 2nd ed. 1990 Cassell Educational New York, NY, US
34. H.J. Kim, and I.L. Abraham Statistical approaches to modeling symptom clusters in cancer patients Cancer Nurs 31 5 2008 E1 E10
35. B.G. Tabachnick, and L.S. Fidell Using multivariate statistics 5th ed. 2007 Pearson Allyn & Bacon Upper Saddle River, NJ
36. J. Hair, W. Black, B. Babin, R. Anderson, and R. Tatham Multivariate data analysis 6th ed. 2006 Pearson Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
37. P. Kline An easy guide to factor analysis 2002 Routledge London
38. R. Cudeck, and L.L. O'Dell Applications of standard error estimates in unrestricted factor analysis: significance tests for factor loadings and correlations Psychol Bull 115 3 1994 475 487
39. G. Zhang, K.J. Preacher, and S. Luo Bootstrap confidence intervals for ordinary least squares factor loadings and correlations in exploratory factor analysis Multivar Behav Res 45 2010 104 134
40. B. Thompson Exploring the replicability of a study's results: bootstrap statistics for the multivariate case Educ Psychol Meas 55 1995 84 94
41. R. Kustra, R. Shioda, and M. Zhu A factor analysis model for functional genomics BMC bioinformatics 7 2006 216
42. R. Kustra, and A. Zagdanski Data-fusion in clustering microarray data: balancing discovery and interpretability Trans Comput Biol Bioinform 7 1 2010 50 63
43. R. Tibshirani, and T. Hastie Outlier sums for differential gene expression analysis Biostatistics 8 1 2007 2 8
44. T.A. Brown Confirmatory factor analysis for applied research 2006 Guilford New York
45. W.R. Zwick, and W.F. Velicer Comparison of five rules for determining the number of components to retain Psychol Bull 99 1986 432 442
46. D.A. Cole Utility of confirmatory factor analysis in test validation research J Consult Clin Psych 55 4 1987 584 594
47. L.T. Hu, and P.M. Bentler Cutoff criteria for indexes in co-variance structure analysis: conventional criteria for versus new alternatives Struct Equ Model 6 1999 1 15
48. R Foundation for Statistical Computing. Available from: http://www.r-project.org/foundation/.
49. J. Cohen Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences 2nd ed. 1988 Lawrence Erlbaum New Jersey
50. M.L. Chen, and C.C. Lin Cancer symptom clusters: a validation study J Pain Symptom Manage 34 6 2006 590 599
51. B.L. Hart Biological basis of the behavior of sick animals Neurosci Biobehav Rev 12 2 1988 123 137
52. R. Dantzer Cytokine induced sickness behavior: mechanisms and implications Ann NY Acad Sci 933 2001 222 234
53. W.Y. Cheung, L.W. Le, and C. Zimmerman Symptoms clusters in patients with advanced cancers Support Care Cancer 17 2009 1223 1230
54. S.L. Beck, W.N. Dudley, and A. Barsevick Pain, sleep disturbance and fatigue in patients with cancer: using a mediation model to test a symptom cluster Oncol Nurs Forum 32 2005 85 95
55. W.K. So, G. Marsh, and W.M. Ling The symptom cluster of fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression and the effect on the quality of life of women receiving treatment for breast cancer: a multicenter study Oncol Nurse Forum 34 2007 785 792
56. T.W. Huang, and C.C. Lin The mediating effects of depression on sleep disturbance and fatigue: symptom clusters in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma Cancer Nurs 32 2009 398 403
57. D. Walsh, and L. Rybick Symptom clustering in advanced cancer Support Care Cancer 14 8 2006 831 836
58. J. Illman, R. Corringham, and D. Robinson Jr Are inflammatory cytokines the common link between cancer-associated cachexia and depression? J Support Oncol 3 1 2005 37 50
59. E. Bruera Clinical management of anorexia and cachexia in patients with advanced cancer Oncology 49 Suppl. 2 1992 35 42
60. S.L. Maliske, L. Kwan, D. Elashoff, and M.S. Litwin Symptom clusters related to treatment for prostate cancer Oncol Nurs Forum 35 5 2008 786 793
61. J.F. Gleason Jr, D. Case, and S.R. Rapp Symptom clusters in patients with newly-diagnosed brain tumors J Support Oncol 5 9 2007 427 433 436
62. S.J. Breen, C.M. Baravelli, P.E. Schofield, M. Jefford, P.M. Yates, and S.K. Aranda Is symptom burden a predictor of anxiety and depression in patients with cancer about to commence chemotherapy? Med J Aust 190 Suppl. 7 2009 S99 S104
63. C.M. Bender, F.S. Ergÿn, M.Q. Rosenzweig, S.M. Cohen, and S.M. Sereika Symptom clusters in breast cancer across 3 phases of the disease Cancer Nurs 28 3 2005 219 225
64. D. Goldberg A classification of psychological distress for use in primary care settings Soc Sci Med 35 2 1992 189 193
65. M.I. Fitch, D. Osoba, N. Iscoe, and J.P. Szalai Predicting psychological distress in patients with cancer: conceptual basis and reliability evaluation of a self-report questionnaire Anticancer Res 15 4 1995 1533 1542
66. C. Zaza, and N.J. Baine Cancer pain and psychosocial factors: a critical review of the literature Pain Symptom Manage 24 5 2002 526 542
67. L.E. Carlson, S.L. Groff, O. Maciejewski, and B.D. Bultz Screening for distress in lung and breast cancer outpatients: a randomized controlled trial J Clin Oncol 28 33 2010 4884 4891
68. D. Howell, S. Currie, and S. Mayo A Pan-Canadian clinical practice guideline: assessment of psychosocial health care needs of the adult cancer patient 2009 Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (Cancer Journey Action Group) and the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology Toronto
69. L.A. Williams Clinical management of symptom clusters Semin Oncol Nurs 23 2 2007 113 120
70. R.K. Portenoy, H.T. Thaler, and A.B. Kornblith Symptom prevalence, characteristics and distress in a cancer population Qual Life Res 3 3 1994 183 189